Dargun

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	117.13 km 2
Residents:	4329 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17159
Area code :	039959
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 027
City structure:	19 districts
City administration address :	Peace Square 6 17159 Dargun
Website :	www.dargun.de
Mayor :	Sirko Wellnitz (independent)
Location of the town of Dargun in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Dargun is an office-free country town in the north of the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The place in the Peene Valley is a basic center .

geography

Klostersee

Dargun is located in a side valley of the Peene , a few kilometers north of the Kummerower See and Mecklenburg Switzerland . The community area of ​​Darguns, which has been enlarged by incorporations, borders in the north on the district of Vorpommern-Rügen and in the west on the district of Rostock . The district extends from the Trebelufer to the Peene, which is almost at sea level. The surrounding hills reach approx. 40  m above sea level. NHN . Dargun is located on the northern edge of the Mecklenburg Switzerland and Kummerower See nature reserve .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities (clockwise) are Grammendorf , Nossendorf , Warrenzin , Verchen , Stadt Neukalen , Altkalen , Finkenthal and Behren-Lübchin .

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Dargun:

Brudersdorf Stubbendorf	Dare Zarnekow

Residential places in the city are:

Aalbude Old building yard Barlin Darbein	Dörgelin Glazov Great Methling Klein Methling	Kützerhof Lehnenhof Remershof Levin	Schwarzenhof

history

Surname

The name Dargun is of Elbe Slavic origin, the basic form was originally * Dargunj or shortened * Dargun ' . This goes back to the Elbe Slavic personal name * Dargun , short form of names such as B. Dargomer .

antiquity

The Stone Age cult complex of Dargun was discovered in 2013.

middle Ages

Near the later village of Röcknitz, an Elbe Slavic castle settlement with castle, rampart and moat, mentioned in 1171, was built, probably between the 7th and 10th centuries , which was then destroyed by the Danes. In 1216 the name Rokitnitze and in 1219 Rokenitze was mentioned . The Elbe Slavic basic form Rokytnica goes back to the field name Rokytina with the meaning of willow bushes (Elbe Slavic rokyta : willow), which were very likely at the Röcknitz brook (1174 rivulus [lat. Small brook ] Rokenize ). At that time, the Clubuchziz desert was located near Wagun and the Coueniz desert near Dargun .

A Cistercian abbey was built near the castle from 1172 , initially as a filia of the Esrom monastery . In 1173 the first altar consecration was made by Bishop Berno von Schwerin . After an initial destruction, the convent moved to Eldena around 1200 . The replacement took place in 1209 from Doberan Monastery . In 1236 the monastery fell to Mecklenburg and in 1242 it was granted market justice . The monastery church of St. Marien - now in ruins - was built in the 13th to 15th centuries as a Gothic brick church.

1500 to 1700

In 1552 the monastery was secularized and was the secondary residence of Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg and his descendants. The monastery complex was converted from 1590, first as a hunting lodge and later as a side residence in the Renaissance style. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was severely damaged.

After 1657 it was redesigned by Charles Philippe Dieussart into a three-storey building with corner towers and arcades in the inner courtyard. The tea pavilion in the newly designed park and the yellow gate were also designed by this builder.

18th and 19th centuries

The palace flourished from 1720 to 1756 under Princess Augusta , the youngest daughter of Duke Gustav-Adolf of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, who was given the office of Dargun as apanage in 1720 . She was known for her pietistic piety and her commitment to the faith, and promoted education and health care in the Dargun area. Augusta created a preliminary stage for the later parish nurse through the use of so-called "attendants".

Jews settled in the village as early as the 18th century, and they set up a Jewish cemetery that was used until 1923. It was destroyed during the Nazi era and was not restored until 1963.

Dargun was a market town in the Dominialamt of the same name within the Rostock rule of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . There was a connection to the Peene and thus to the Kummerower See via the navigable Dargun Canal. In 1851 it was merged with the village of Röcknitz . In addition to the post office and telegraph office, a forest inspection, a district court, two churches, an industrial school, an advance payment association , two mills and a steam dairy were built. The place was visited as a climatic health resort .

Modern times

Castle and monastery church (model)

In 1907 Dargun was connected to the Malchin – Dargun railway . It was not until 1938 that Dargun received city ​​rights .

In the last days of the war in 1945, after the Red Army marched in , the entire castle complex with the castle church (former monastery church, Protestant church) was set on fire by Soviet soldiers. The demolition of the ruins could be prevented. In the 1950s, however, stones and valuable decorations were stolen. In 1979 the entire complex of the former palace and palace church was entered in the GDR's list of monuments. Citizens have been committed to preserving and securing the ruins since the 1980s. In 1991 a support association was founded. The German Foundation for Monument Protection and other institutions made it possible to secure the walls and expand the central projection in the west wing with the creation of space for city information, the city library and the archive.

In 1963 a two-story school with ten classrooms was built behind the sports field. In 1973, a second new school building for 13 classrooms was built using prefabricated panels.

The core of Dargun with its village streets has been fundamentally renovated since 1991 as part of the urban development subsidy. The reconstruction of the castle was also tackled. In 1996 the museum was opened in the former hostel building of the monastery.

From 1952 to 1994 Dargun belonged to the Malchin district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg , then in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In 1994 the city was incorporated into the Demmin district. Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Mecklenburg Lake District

History of the districts and residential areas

Aalbude was located in the 14th century on an island around which the Achterpeene, which is now filled in and silted up, flowed around in the west. In 1997 the water hiking rest area was created.

Brudersdorf: The neo-Gothic church dates from 1863/66.

Glasow was first mentioned in a document in 1216. The name means place on stony ground . Glazov belonged to the Dargun Monastery in the 13th century . The low German hall house dates from the 17th century.

Groß Methling: The neo-Gothic church dates from 1891.

Levin: The late Romanesque two-bay St. John's Church made of field stone with a retracted square choir was built until 1256. The square west tower, made of field stone at the bottom and brick at the top, dates from the 15th century.

Röcknitz was a castle town in the 16th century and a town in the 17th century. A two kilometer long road connected the village with the castle as the end point. In 1854 Röcknitz was officially mentioned as Dargun , and in 1875 the village and castle settlement became a community.

Schwarzenhof: The manor house was built around 1850, rebuilt around 1904 and renovated after 2004.

Stubbendorf was incorporated into Dargun in 2004.

Wagun was an estate village. In 1937 the estate was 552 hectares in size. The manor house dates from the second half of the 19th century. After 1945 it was a residential building, kindergarten, school and seat of the local council. Today there is u. a. a small art workshop.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Altbauhof was incorporated. On January 1, 1951, Barlin, Dörgelin, Glasow and Neubauhof were incorporated. The district of Lehnenhof of the then dissolved community Darbein was added on the same day. On June 13, 2004, the municipalities of Brudersdorf, Stubbendorf, Wagun and Zarnekow were incorporated into the city from the former Dargun office and the office was dissolved.

Population development

year Residents 1880 2278 1890 2206 1990 4201 1995 4001 2000 3830 2005 5097

year Residents 2010 4621 2015 4436 2016 4432 2017 4410 2018 4365 2019 4329

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The strong increase in the number of inhabitants between 2000 and 2005 is due to the incorporation of four places in 2004.

politics

City council

The city council of Dargun consists of 15 members and the mayor.

Party / group of voters	Seats 2014	Share of votes in 2019	Seats 2019
Voting Community Darguner Ortsteile (WGDO)	3	21.9%	3
SPD	3	20.2%	3
CDU	4th	13.5%	2
The left	3	13.3%	2
Voters' Association Dargun (WVD)	2	13.2%	2
Single applicant Susan Schwebke	-	10.1%	1
AfD	-	07.8%	1
All in all	15th0	100.0%0	15th0

Schwebke's share of the vote corresponds to two seats. Therefore one seat in the city council remains vacant.

mayor

• 2002–2016: Karl-Heinz Graupmann (Die Linke)
• since 2016: Sirko Wellnitz (independent)

In the mayoral election on September 18, 2016, Wellnitz was elected for a term of eight years with 61.8 percent of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Half split and divided; Above: in front, in gold, a black bull's head, crowned in gold, with a torn red mouth, silver teeth, a knocked out red tongue, the neck fur torn off in seven points and silver horns; behind, in silver, an upright red griffin with gold armor; below in blue a straight golden abbot's staff. " The coat of arms was awarded on November 9, 1875 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 1998 and registered under the number 166 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the abbot's staff reminds of the Cistercian monastery founded by the Pomeranian princes, the actual origin and core of the place. While the red griffin symbolizes the Pomeranian sovereignty over this area until 1236 or 1291, the bull's head as a small sovereign symbol of the Mecklenburg ruling house is intended to mark the later affiliation to the duchy, from 1815 the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided; above in silver a growing red griffin, below in blue three silver loyalty runners one above the other. " The coat of arms was designed by Prof. Hans Herbert Schweitzer from Berlin . It was awarded on September 30, 1939 by the Reich Governor in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

The flag was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on June 25, 1998.

The flag is evenly striped lengthways with blue and yellow. In the middle of the flag is the city coat of arms, two thirds of the height of the blue and yellow stripes. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription "STADT DARGUN".

Twin cities

• Hohenlockstedt in Schleswig-Holstein
• Skælskør in Denmark
• Karlino (Körlin an der Persante) in Poland

Partnerships

• 5th Company of the Staff and Telecommunications Battalion 801 of the Bundeswehr in Neubrandenburg (2002-2014)
• 3rd company of the telecommunications battalion 801 of the Bundeswehr (2014-2016)

Attractions

Ruins of Dargun Castle and the monastery church

See also : List of architectural monuments in Dargun

• Dargun Castle with the former monastery church, which emerged from a Cistercian monastery . It was destroyed by arson in 1945. Construction work to preserve the ruin and the partial reuse have begun. The castle was originally built as a secondary residence for the Güstrow dukes from the monastery and was given to Princess Augusta, a daughter of the last Mecklenburg-Güstrow mansion, in the 18th century. In the 19th century it became the first agriculture school in Mecklenburg and lasted until May 1945. With its open gallery walkways, the palace was one of the most impressive palace complexes in Northern Germany.
• St. Mary's monastery church with formerly many art treasures. The Arp Schnitger organ with 23 stops on two manuals and a pedal was built in 1700, was completely rebuilt in 1911 by the organ builder Carl Börger from Rostock-Gehlsdorf and lost almost all of its historical substance. In 1945 nothing was left of the original substance except for the prospectus. In 1989/90 the church ruins were secured and the nave roofed over. It is used again for church services and cultural events. The nave is separated from the choir and transept by a glass wall.

Parish church

• Parish church Dargun , formerly Röcknitz village church, which at the beginning of the 19th century grew together with the castle settlement and the so-called "new building" to form a patch. A church was first mentioned in 1178 by Bishop Berno. It was originally a Gothic stone building from the 13th century. It was renovated in 1753 and the porch in 1861 in brick construction. The altar is a late Gothic triptych with painted wing exterior and filigree carvings (crucifixion group and apostle representations) inside. The organ from 1860 was built by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from Wittstock, it was restored in 1995.

Aalbude on the Peene

• Catholic chapel from 1998 in the new parish hall
• Jewish cemetery near the site of a former Slavic castle in the forest northwest of Dargun. A memorial stone from 1963 commemorates the victims of the Shoah .
• Museum in the palace complex (former hostel building) deals with the history of Dargun from the 19th century to the present day
• Residential buildings and front doors such as Amtsstrasse 2, Schlossstrasse 28 and 58
• Memorial monks in Dargun on the Square of Peace by Günther Kaden (1999)
• Station building from 1907
• Klostersee with bathing facilities and a train trolley rental station on the disused Malchin – Dargun railway line
• Brudersdorf: Neo-Gothic church from 1863/66 as a field stone building on a rectangular floor plan with a polygonal choir closure, Lütkemueller organ from 1865
• Groß Methling: neo-Gothic red brick church from 1891 based on plans by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel with simple vault paintings, organ by F. H. Lütkemueller (1859)
• Kützerhof: manor house as a single-storey half-timbered building
• Levin: Late Romanesque St. John's Church from 1256 made of field stone with retracted choir and square west tower made of field stone and brick from the 15th century, organ by Heinrich Rasche from 1743, interior painting from 1885, next to it the rectory from 1750
• Schwarzenhof: Manor from around 1850, remodeled in 1904, today a holiday complex
• Stubbendorf: European cooperative Longo maï in the Ulenkrug courtyard. Ralph Giordano dedicated a chapter in his book Deutschlandreise to his visit to the estate .

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  Castle ruin

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  Monastery church

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  Yellow gate and lock

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  Watermill on Klosterdamm

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  War memorial 1870–71 and town hall

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  Brudersdorf Church

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  Gross Methling Church

Economy and Infrastructure

brewery

Companies

• Darguner Brewery
• Central Cheese Dairy Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ZMV)
• EcoNautic Systems GmbH (mechanical engineering)
• PED GmbH (automation, electrotechnical plant equipment)

traffic

Dargun is on the B 110 federal road between Gnoien and Demmin and on the L 20 state road to Malchin . The closest motorway junctions are Ticino and Bad Sülze on the A 20 between Rostock and Neubrandenburg (each about 25 km away).

Dargun has no rail connection. Dargun station was on the Malchin – Dargun railway line , which, after its closure in 1997, has been available for trolley rides since 2002 . The nearest train station is Demmin , around 15 km away. It is served by the regional express line RE 5 ( Stralsund- Berlin- Wünsdorf -Waldstadt).

education

• Primary school Dargun, Am Sportplatz 18
• Regional school Dargun, Am Sportplatz 18

Sports

There are three football clubs in Dargun: SV Concordia 1919 Zarnekow, SV Traktor Dargun and Borussia Barlin.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Abraham Aaron (1744-1825), medalist
• Johann Friedrich Bahrdt (1789–1847), writer
• Friedrich Liss (1795–1878), lawyer, mayor of Sülze
• Julius Sandtmann (1826–1883), politician ( German Progressive Party )
• Gottlieb von Both (1837–1906), Mecklenburg administrative and court official
• Arnold Bernhard (1886–1944), factory owner, chairman of the Jewish community in Rostock
• Willy Klitzing (1886–1947), state official ( NSDAP )
• Hermann Schäfer (1900–1961), politician (SPD)
• Karin Wiedemann (* 1948), politician (CDU)

Personalities associated with Dargun

• Jakob Baumann (around 1491–1562), last abbot of the Cistercian monastery Dargun and first Protestant pastor in town
• Samuel Starck (1649–1697), pastor in Dargun
• Emil Lemcke (1870–1946), administrator in Dargun
• Hans Werner Ohse (1898–1991), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, grew up in Dargun
• Werner Krolikowski (* 1928), politician ( SED ), lived in Dargun after the Second World War

literature

• BIG Städtebau Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ed.): Dargun - 10 years of urban renewal. 2002, DNB 965578283 .
• Ralph Giordano : Travel to Germany. Notes from a difficult homeland. There: "Longo maï" or "Here there are no regulations" (about Longo maï in the Ulenkrug courtyard in Dargun-Stubbendorf). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02739-5 , pp. 310–329.
• Heinz Krüger: The old Dargun. A historical foray through the town. Kunsthaus, Boddin 2005, ISBN 3-933274-54-0 .
• Dorothee Reimann: The sky above the choir . In: Monuments. Magazine for monument culture in Germany. Issue 5/6 (2010), pp. 58-61.
• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (ed.): Mecklenburg documents. Volume 1: Documents from Dargun Monastery. Schwerin 1837 ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Dargun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Dargun in the state bibliography MV
• Dargun.de - the city's website
• Dargun-Info.de Info page about the city of Dargun
• Places in MV: Dargun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Mecklenburg Lake District (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015
3. ↑ § 12 of the main statute of the city of Dargun
4. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Eichler , Werner Mühlmer: The names of the cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
5. ↑ Dargun , in: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon . FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894–1896, 4th volume, p. 803.
6. ↑ Joachim Schultz-Naumann: Mecklenburg 1945 . Ed .: Universitas Verlag. 1990, ISBN 3-8004-1215-2 , pp. 199 .
7. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
8. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
9. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
10. ^ Result of the election for the city council on May 25, 2014
11. ↑ Result of the election for city council on May 26, 2019 (share of votes)
12. ↑ Result of the election for city council on May 26, 2019 (seats)
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 18, 2016
14. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 281/282 .
15. ↑ ^{a b} § 1 of the main statute of the city of Dargun (PDF).
16. ↑ Klosterstadt invites recruits to go on vacation. In: Nordkurier , May 8, 2013.
17. ↑ Ulenkrug farm
18. ↑ Dargun Nature Park Draisine